President Obama waves after speaking at the dinner. From left: comedian Larry Wilmore, first lady Michelle Obama and Jerry Seib of The Wall Street Journal. (Susan Walsh/AP)

President Obama’s eighth and final comedic speech for the annual gathering of the White House Correspondents’ Association was heavy on end-of-term self-deprecation (“Hillary once questioned whether I’d be awake for the 3 a.m. phone call: Now I’m awake anyway cause I have to go to the bathroom”) and heavier on jokes about an absence Donald Trump (“is this dinner too tacky for The Donald?”) — though he seemed to hold back just a bit in a seemingly uneasy room.

We’ll be analyzing this speech for a while. Perhaps not the finest of his well-regarded comic riffs — but his bit with an in-on-the-joke John Boehner will be remembered as a highlight of bipartisan cooperation.

Who knows how history will regard the routine by Comedy Central’s Larry Wilmore. By some accounts from within the room, he was dying up there; big segments of the audience recoiled from his withering slams on Wolf Blitzer, Brian Williams and the president’s drone warfare strategy.

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Wilmore’s targets: C-SPAN (“C-SPAN is the number one network among people who died watching TV and no one’s found them yet.”) and CNN’s countdown clock: “Now we can see exactly when they hit zero in the ratings.”

Meanwhile, he says, MSNBC stands for “Missing a Significant Number of Black Correspondents.”

Wilmore asks who Obama’s killing tonight, since Osama bin Laden was killed the weekend of the 2011 White House correspondents’ dinner. The punchline is, of course, newspapers: “Can’t be print journalism, that industry’s been dead for a while now!”

“Your hair is so white it tried to punch me at a Trump rally,” Wilmore says. “You came in here looking like Denzel, you go out looking like Grady from ‘Sanford & Son.’ I know it’s a dated reference, but you’re dated, Mr. President!”

“I am a black man, who replaced a white man, who pretended to be a TV newscaster,” Larry Wilmore said. He then added, referring to the man who replaced Brian Williams on NBC Nightly News, “‘Lester Holt and I have a lot in common.”

Turning more serious, Obama spoke about several of the journalists in the room.

“A free press is why we once again honor Jason Rezaian.” Obama said of The Washington Post journalist.

Noting Rezaian’s absence last year at this event – he was still being held in solitary confinement in Iran – Obama said, “This year, we see that courage in the flesh.” Obama vowed to continue to use his office, as long as he’s president to work to free journalists who are held against their will.

“—- you, Chuck Todd,” Obama said in a pre-taped video joking about his decision to stay in Washington, D.C., so that his youngest kid can finish school after he leaves office. The line came at the end of a montage of TV reporters making jokes about the decision.

The video also contains something of a tradition for Obama’s sense of humor — a couple of birther jokes as Obama goes to the DMV to get a driver’s license again.

Obama also watches “Toy Story” with former House speaker John Boehner, who gives him advice. “You can just be you for awhile,” Boehner advises.

“Yesterday, I had a beer at 11:30 in the morning,” Boehner adds. He also tempts the president with a cigarette.

Boehner cameo in Obama's video about post-presidency chilling goes over big in the room.